JohnDBarrow

I'm not fishing here, pal. I'm glad President Trump pardoned all those wrongly-jailed American Patriots who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 06, 2021 to protest the rigged election. The Gulf of America is fine by me.

They most certainly got my vote in November of 2024 as Donald and Mike Pence got my vote in 2020 and in 2016. It was nice to see fake senile Old Joe and that fake ex-VP dame get out of Washington on that helicopter and that big jet airplane. I agree with Donald Trump that Biden/Harris never had a legitimate administration in the first place because the 2020 election was tampered with. I saw Trump's inaugural speech. He said, DRILL, BABY, DRILL! He doesn't like that federal mandate to push electric automobiles onto the public also. The whole EV thing has a way to go before it blooms in full and is ripened to perfection. At age 60, I will probably be confined to fossil fuels for the remainder on my life at least in this reincarnation of myself. But after that is all said, I would still rather use fossil fuels from American soil than be forced to use them from abroad to keep the gasoline prices down as much as possible. I do realize that fossil fuels provided by planet Earth will not be continued to be consumed here forever. Nuke power is finite as well. There will come a future time, as long as mankind exists on Earth, that renewable energy sources will be truly taken dead serious on this planet.

5 million American popular votes is "thin "? What about Don's getting 312 electoral votes to the anti-gun dame's 226?

No, I'm asking you? ESKIMO doesn't bother me.

Well, racist lyrics don't bother you? What gives?

Can you imagine "Indigenous" (as opposed to Indian) motorcycles? How about making woke changes in The Christmas Song: "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your TITS Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like INUITS." Bob Dylan revised: Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats Some are building monuments Others are jotting down notes Ev'rybody's in despair Ev'ry girl and boy But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Ev'rybody's jump for joy Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet But guarding fumes and making haste It ain't my cup of meat Ev'rybody's just standing 'round 'neath the trees Feeding pigeons on a limb But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Them pigeons'll go to him Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn A lamb bleat and a goat do, I can recite 'em all Just tell me where it hurts And I'll tell you who to call Nobody can get any sleep There's someone on ev'ryone's toes But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Ev'rybody's gonna doze Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn

Eskimo Pie is no longer. The Cleveland Indians are no longer. The Washington Redskins are no longer. The cook on the Cream of Wheat box is no longer. Aunt Jemima is no longer. ESKIMO is a fun word. INDIAN is a fun word. The COOK made Cream of Wheat fun to eat. Ford got rid of the MERCURY trademark because it is a Roman god which might offend folks of other faiths. PONTIAC was Native American so General Motors axed it. PLYMOUTH is gone from Chrysler Motors because the name sounds too Anglo-Saxon. The OLD in OLDSMOBILE might have offended the anti-ageism crowd. Who knows? I hate it when there are those woke-sters who make every effort to rid America of her unique heritage and culture. My mother always bought Eskimo Pie. All that said, I will NEVER buy an Edy's Pie! Fat Boy and Klondike with the polar bear on the label are fine by me. PS - The Woke Police and others on the Left are out to take away anything that is FUN!

In the 1940's, our loving technology companies trained us how to use such weird novel contraptions as dial telephones with such politeness and professionalism. Do we get this level of care and training from mobile providers today? Will Apple iPhone come to small American communities for town hall meetings to educate farm folks on their latest gear? Comparing a dial telephone to a party line system with a hand crank to summon the operator is like comparing a 1977 Radio Shack TRS-80 computer with cassette ROM BASIC to your latest Windows 11 notebook PC

I feel a prisoner to so much STUFF! The bible even says one day we will not be able to buy or sell unless the number 666 is stamped on us. Technology is The Beast of Revelation. I still wear a watch on my wrist. It is still easier than pulling the damn phone out of my fanny pack to get the time of day. This 1950's documentary film taught Americans how to use a dial telephone. They had been so accustomed for so long to party lines and live human operators. You summoned the operator but turning the crank previously.

Pardon? I'm sorry, I don't follow.

I still refer to my Moto E6 as a telephone. Every app on it works fine except for Walmart, Sam's Club and Mister Car Wash. Being an environmentalist, I will not buy any new product I feel I don't need. I will "drive" my refurbished Moto from Tello/T-Mobile ($10.80 per month) until the "wheels" fall off, but it really has no wheels anyway. I will run it into the ground like my '95 Corolla.

The only things I buy at Sam's are gasoline, dog food, eggs, chicken and meat. The meat and chicken is frozen at home and everything will be used up before it goes bad. I bought 90 (7 1/2 dozen) eggs in a cardboard box at Sam's at 21 cents per egg. These eggs will keep for months in the fridge and my big refrigerator offers the space for them. I have a chest freezer for meats in bulk. There are no meglamarts in my central Iowa that I'm aware of. I have yet to see anybody who can beat Sam's nearby for those things I do buy there. Almost anything else comes from Walmart. I buy Good and Gather frozen fruit from Target because the price is right for the quality. I use a VISA card to get the cash rewards and also so unscrupulous merchants can be charged back if there is dispute. I bought some underwear at Walmart last month that did not fit. Walmart only refunded me half the total. I filed a dispute with Bank of America. Cash doesn't offer that level of buyer security and cash is hard to replace if it gets lost.

PS - I see your C. Sagan remark about time. People, and perhaps animals, are time aware when they are in pain, suffering or are hungry. Whenever we feel good, time flies and we seem to pay no mind to it. Humans place importance on time due to the understanding of our physical mortality and that we don't seem to have forever to accomplish whatever. Some Christians claim time is irrelevant and means nothing to God.

I have just joined Sam's Club in America recently to try to save money on things like gasoline, dog food, eggs and meats. I have found some good savings, but I don't like the notion that I must be forced to use my mobile telephone in order to transact business at Sam's or anywhere else. My phone is OK to summon an Uber ride, I guess. Sam's Club will no longer issue physical membership card to its members forcing them to be a prisoner of their phone. I had to have a gas station attendant show me how to use my phone to pump gas into my automobile. The Sam's Club app is about as difficult and slow to load into my Android 9 Moto E6 phone as the Walmart app. What if the phone dies, is lost, is broken or the batteries run out? It is asinine that people don't have membership cards as backup. Some older and disabled people might have difficulty using phone technology to do a whole host of things. I was born in 1964. Telephones plugged into the wall and had dials that turned to place calls. Telephones were once used to have voice conversations at a distance. They were by no means a workstation.

The sweet and authentic-sounding mock sound of a large V-8 engine in a non-combustion automobile might even be a pleasure to the driver. There is nothing worse than hearing a radio loudspeaker inside a public restroom when one is trying to sit on the pot with privacy, peace and quiet. The entrance doors to these bathrooms left wide open so all the store noise blasts inside. Walmart is the worst noise offender for supermarket shoppers. Retarded store employees carrying on in loud voices laughing and joking, loud forklift beeps, that hillbilly crap or rap crap they play over the loudspeaker in Iowa and Oklahoma. It makes me have to wear my noise-cancelling music headset inside these stores.

This one sounds like the transporter room on the Starship Enterprise when Scotty is beaming Kirk or Spock. A sweet big V-8 purr would be fine by me.

Even better yet, Toyota should bring back this 1991 truck, offer a double cab option, offer a hybrid option that can hit 40+ highway, put in a couple of airbags, offer a 4x4 or AWD option and this would be one bang-up truck for this decade!

This holds some promise too, a double cab version would even be sweeter:

It will then have to be a good preowned gas-only Tacoma 4-cyl. for me with a double cab and full 6-foot box. There is absolutely no logic in the new automobile and light-duty truck market whatsoever. God only knows when the automobile industry will truly get its chit together. This is from the days when Toyota had perfect sense. Dollars and cents. 1979-1980 television commercial.

I need something to haul my German Shepherd, my camping gear, my canoe and my deer when I go hunting. How much money do I need to give to Big Oil at the pump for accomplishing this endeavor? If the newfangled Ford Maverick truck had a 6-foot box and Toyota build quality along with nice folks at the Ford dealership, it would be a pure win for me. Ford has a great energy-saving idea that I wish Toyota would improve upon real soon. It would be no more challenging to build an electric pickup truck with solid-state batteries than an electric passenger automobile. I want a personal vehicle that is mother-earth-friendly but also worth a damn for working capacity and room. They just have to improve the energy efficiency of pickup trucks considerably.

So, it makes absolutely no sense to buy one. For automobiles, the new Corolla Hybrid can top 50 MPG highway. The new Tacoma truck hybrid gets even worse MPG than it's pure gas counterpart while the Corolla car hybrid gets much better MPG than a pure gas Corolla. Ford's Maverick hybrid truck can top 42 MPG highway. The only trouble is, it's a Big Three product.

I'm not dissing anything. I'm an American. I'm only relaying what is being offered by Toyota Motor Company right now for us American consumers. According to Toyota's corporate website, Toyota's new 2025 pure gasoline Tacoma in 4-cyl motor actually has better MPG highway than its new hybrid Tacoma. 26 MPG vs 22 MPG so please try to figure that one out. It seems like hybrid cars, like Prius and Corolla, on the other hand do much better than their gas-only counterparts on gas. What is the point of buying a more expensive hybrid truck if it even gets $hittier gas mileage? I thought the whole notion of hybrid was to reduce fossil fuels consumption. Until Toyota offers us Yanks those solid-state battery trucks that can go 500+ miles on a single charge, there's not much I can do about it. Toyota breakthrough: What are solid-state batteries and why do we need them? | New Scientist

For American new-car market. No thrifty little Scout truck as promised. Tacoma truck prices ever soaring. Still no plug-in battery electric trucks. Of course, I don't want plug-in battery trucks until they can compete with fossil-fuels-burning trucks with similar load capacity, trailer-pulling capacity, highway speeds and range. The promised solid state batteries were supposed to make this a reality. We asked for it, Toyota, when shall we get it? Gladly, base-model gasoline Corollas have not jumped up in price for 2025.

I agree. Businesses best serve the public when the public holds them. Why did stupid Americans vote otherwise to privatize utilities then complain about big electric bills? Americans are indoctrinated that capitalism is always a "good" thing.